outdoor toms

They ARE Gardeners Delight, they're about 8cm with only 2 true leaves is this normal?  :?

Um a bit worried now!! planted mine 5 wks ago and they're only tiny things, been wondering why they seem so small and if they will ever get tomatoes on.     Even so they are in a plastic greenhouse outside now.  Why are everyone elses so big? did I plant them way too late?

Do you sowed 5 weeks ago ? I sowed mine back in Feb ! but I'm lucky heated propagator and greenhouse, yours will soon catch up. Like Aidy says are they in a big enough pot ? 3" is about right.

I have Tornado's but they are only out on warm days as yet I might risk them out tonight for the first time as its going to rain so no frost. I am hopping they will do well as it will free up the greenhouse for more exotic stuff next year.

half my toms went out last week - if i can find more space, the rest will go out next week. i am trying companion planting this year so my toms have basil plants for company.

i've put out a few cucumbers too and a handful of peppers.my first batch of celery is also in.

i am able to water freely on my plot so have almost finished eating my first sowing of radish and have started on the baby lettuce leaves this weekend - they are delicious. my ist lot of early spuds have flowers on now - so they won't be long.

i love eating my garden

I've got about 100 in the cold frames almost ready to be planted but still worried about frost.

Got a dozen red alerts about a week ahead that I'm now putting in Morrison's flower buckets (8 for 99p) with a hole drilled in the base, and I'm putting these in my empty corrugated iron compost bays which have Rylock fencing suspended over and old carpet ready to throw on top at the first sign of frost (together with early potatoes in plastic bages & french beans, cucumbers, courgettes and runner beans [growing up short canes] again all in pots).

Got more coming on in the greenhouse and will put some more seed in in a couple of weeks for a very late crop.

We make a lot of tomato sauce.

Got nearly 1/2 acre allotment.

We can afford to be generous to friends, repay favours with flowers & fresh veg, make a lot of wine from my own fruit, grow my own pea & bean poles, provide food for the hens, make preserves and sauces, have a large grassed area full of wild flowers, etc.

P.S. I forgot the 40 ft span willow tree with shady grassed are underneath, the WW2 30 x 20 ft pig sties, the apple trees with grassed areas underneath, my parking/turning area, where I store straw collected 2ce a week from the stables where my daughter rides, etc.

When I prick out tomatoes I plant the seedlings as low as possible in cell trays, then when planting into pots I drop the seedling right to the bottom, and when planting into open ground (especially with 'leggy' plants) I plant as deep as possible (a bit difficult if planting through polythene mulch, but in general open ground not a problem), to get as many roots as possible coming out of the stem as high as possible.